DC-646 Slitter/Cutter/Creaser

All-in-one finishing solution for mid-volume production

Standard PC Controller software and CCD scanner

Optional rotary tool and cross perforating modules

OverviewKey ApplicationsSpecsTestimonials

The DC-646 Slitter/Cutter/Creaser is Duplo's versatile digital color finisher providing printers the ability to create a multitude of unique full-bleed applications with more efficiency and flexibility. Performing up to 8 slits, 30 cuts and 20 creases in a single pass, the DC-646 eliminates white borders and prevents toner cracking on fold lines up to 30 sheets per minute and also offers optional rotary tool and cross perforating modules, both with strike-perforating capabilities, for increased versatility. With the DC-646, users can produce 24-up business cards on 12" x 18" or 36-up on 14" x 26" paper sizes, slit-score greeting cards, micro-perforated coupons, direct mailers with tear-away cards, and much more!

The DC-646 comes built-in with a CCD scanner, enabling it to recall any job stored in memory simply by reading the printed barcode and automatically set up the job. The scanner also reads registration marks, correcting the sheet-by-sheet image shift and delivering accurately finished pieces every time. Barcodes and registration marks can be easily applied with the EFI Fiery Command Workstation impose tool (Fiery System 10 or newer).

Other new features include side air, job lock to prevent jobs from being overwritten, pause feeding, batch separation, and a PDF template generator for jobs created on the PC Controller.
Features

Optional Cross Perforating Module for perforating, micro-perforating, slit-scoring, and strike-perforating (across the width of the sheet)

Add the Integrated Folding System for in-line folding

With the use of optional rotary tool and cross perforating modules, the DC-646 can finish a wider range of full-bleed digitally-printed documents.

Key Applications

24-up business cards on 12" x 18"

36-up business cards on 14" x 26"

"L" perforated business card within a postcard

Slit-score greeting cards (with perfect lay-flat qualities)

Direct mail pieces with "T" or "L" perforated reply cards

Micro-perforated coupons

Event tickets (with multiple perfs)

Accordion cards (with up to 20 creases)

Feed Capacity

100mm/3.9”

In-Feed Paper Size

Width: 210-370mm (8.26” x 14.56”)

Length: 210-670mm (8.26” x 26.37”)

Finished Size (WxL)

48mm x 50mm/1.89” x 1.97”

Paper Weight

110-350gsm/80 lb. text—130 lb. cover

Speed

30 ppm

22 ppm when using CCD scanner

Slits

6 standard slitter tools

(2 margin slitters, 4 center slitters)

Cuts

Up to 30 cuts per sheet

Creases

Up to 20 creases per sheet

See product brochure for complete specifications.

Options

Rotary tool module

Cross perforating module

Slitting module

Integrated Folding System

PC arm and PC touchscreen

The Fenway Group - Boston, MA

“When the job gets printed out, it’s all set to go in the machine and we don’t need a highly skilled operator to start chopping and tie up the person. It can literally be dropped and the machine is smart enough to read it, adjust the settings to the registration mark, and off it goes.”

Plumb Marketing - Englewood, CO

“The DC-646 is just a great workhorse and it will actually do a lot of work for you. With our typical guillotine press it was just not efficient to cut out business cards especially small orders when you’re getting 500 and 1,000. It just almost doesn’t make sense at all to run that on a regular cutting machine.”

TriLakes Printing - Monument, CO

“This machine has awesome setup speed and is very easy to use so when we have people walking in through the door or we have small run jobs. We can run anything on this without having to go through the expense of tearing down our other larger machine. Setting this up only takes a few minutes.”

QDI Wireless - Phoenix, AZ

“We like the quick job changeover. We can go from a 13” x 19” press sheet, do a custom perf and score, and change over to an 8.5” x 11” 8-up business cards and then change right back over to a 13” x 19” sheet that has a custom perf job on it.”

Direct Fairways - Tempe, AZ

“The nice thing about our DC-646 is that it allows our pressman to print on the Ricoh, turn around, put everything on the Duplo, and let it run. He can bounce back and forth while this is doing the job of one or two people, which is very beneficial and cost effective.”

Visual Image Photography - Cedarburg, WI

“We’ve been able to take products that would have multiple steps and a real lengthy process and finish them in one or two steps, creating a huge efficiency for our company.”

ErinCondren.com - Hawthorne, CA

"Almost everything that is printed gets touched by a Duplo."

Deluxe Financial Services - Des Plaines, IL

"The Duplos have helped our efficiencies. We're able to run our jobs through the process and allows us to change different sizes quickly on the machine."

Harte Hanks - Fort Worth, TX

"We've been able to bring in jobs that we outsourced before. Our revenues have come up. We're actually bidding on jobs that we never would have had an opportunity to bid on or been able to obtain."

Wright's Printing & Marketing - Houston, TX

“With the purchase of the DC-646 with perf modules, it has eliminated some of our guillotine cutting, vendor scoring and perforating. With the perf module, we can actually do T-perfs and L-perfs.”